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Mr. Speaker, 20 years ago, the Right Hon. Stephen Harper was elected as Canada's 22nd prime minister. This week, as his official portrait is unveiled and as Conservatives gather to celebrate the many achievements of his government, I am proud to rise and remember the legacy he left, one of fiscal know-how, strength and unity. Prime Minister Harper successfully led our country through the 2008 econ…
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Mr. Speaker, today is a monumental day for Canada's energy sector and for my province of Alberta. We will see if the Liberals stand behind the Prime Minister's promise to build a pipeline for Canada, or if he will do as his predecessor did and submit to his “keep it in the ground” caucus. Families in my riding are worried that the Prime Minister is paying lip service once again and that these are …
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister continues to talk out of both sides of his mouth. He has mastered his predecessor's art of saying one thing in one province and another thing in another. Albertans want the truth. In a pathetic display of misrepresentation, his own Calgary MP could not even defend the leading sector and source of livelihoods for Calgarians. Will the Prime Minister stand in the House…
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Mr. Speaker, the numbers do not lie. Canadians have made a smashing 2.2 million food bank visits, and over 700,000 are children. Canadians are living in their cars. They are struggling. They cannot afford food and they cannot afford homes. These are facts. Why will the Liberals not admit that their programs are not working and that they will choose their friends and insiders over Canadians every s…
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Mr. Speaker, after 10 years of the Liberal government, elites and insiders have never had it so good. Meanwhile, the Prime Minister's message to young Canadians is to continue to sacrifice. While Canadians are lining up at food banks, billions of their tax dollars keep going to consultants, $25 billion in fact, consultants who do not stick to budgets or, according to the Auditor General, do not ev…
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Mr. Speaker, I doubt it. While Canadians line up at food banks, Liberal consultants line their pockets. Yesterday, the president of Shared Services Canada admitted he learned a very hard lesson on the contract for CRA call centres, which quadrupled to $190 million under the Liberals' watch. It is the same hard lesson the Liberals learned when GC Strategies blew the roof off the ArriveCAN contract.…
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Mr. Speaker, on Thursday, Calgary police reported that a man was stabbed in broad daylight in Fish Creek Provincial Park, a park in my riding that should be an oasis of peace and nature for community and families. Last August, a seven-year-old girl was sexually assaulted in that same park. This is unacceptable. Just a decade ago, it would have been unthinkable that brazen daylight stabbings or sex…
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Mr. Speaker, the only thing that is revolting is those answers. The Prime Minister promised Canadians that he would stop outrageous spending on high-priced consultants. Only six months in, and this promise is broken. He has already increased spending on consultants by 37%. That is $6 billion. Whether it is arrive scam, McKinsey & Company or now the CRA call centre, the Liberals will always find a …
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Mr. Speaker, three things are certain in life. They are death, taxes and that we will wait on hold when we call the CRA, according to today's Auditor General report. CRA's own service standards were only met 18% of the time, with wait times doubling over the last year. Only 17% of agents could accurately provide basic tax information. Complaints have increased by 145% in the last three years, so c…
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Mr. Speaker, instead of focusing on other people's jobs, that member should start doing his. Almost 10 years ago to the day, the Liberals signed a $50-million contract for the CRA call system. It has now almost quadrupled to $190 million, and operational costs at the CRA have increased by 70% under the Liberals. While taxpayers wait on hold, Liberal insiders and contractors cash in. Does the gover…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals continue to break their promises. The Prime Minister claimed that he would make Canada an energy superpower, but refuses to put even one pipeline on his project list. He also told us he would create jobs, but Canada has lost 86,000 jobs since he took over. That includes 1,000 people let go in the oil sector in Calgary this last week. Does the Prime Minister realize that h…
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Mr. Speaker, the member should be ashamed on behalf of all the constituents who have lost jobs in his riding. The Liberals are building bureaucracies, not pipelines. TC Energy has invested $8 billion in the United States. Enbridge is building two pipelines there. Its CEO blames Canada's “keep it in the ground” policies. He is right. Our deficit has doubled, we have the fastest-shrinking G7 economy…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals assured us in 2015 that running massive deficits was an investment. A decade later, we all know that it was just a bait and switch. The reality is that despite consistent efforts to falsely stimulate the economy, investment in Canada has collapsed. There have been 10 years of Liberal broken promises. Debt up equals investment down. We know that the budget will have a mass…
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Mr. Speaker, this week, Imperial Oil announced it will lay off 20% of its workforce and relocate its headquarters out of Calgary. The stampede city gets the shaft again. The Prime Minister has the power to eliminate Bill C-48 and Bill C-69, the emissions cap and the industrial carbon tax, but he does not care about the average Canadian. He does not have to tell his family he does not know how they…
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Mr. Speaker, another Liberal bait and switch is that the Prime Minister promised to cap spending, yet he is on track to double Trudeau's deficits. He promised to make Canada the strongest-growing economy in the G7, yet we have the worst economic performance in the group. He promised to create jobs, but in reality, 86,000 Canadians have lost their job since the Prime Minister took office. When will…
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Madam Speaker, it is always a pleasure for me to rise to speak in the House on behalf of the people of Calgary Midnapore. The motion we have before us today is, "That the House call on the Prime Minister to immediately repeal the oil and gas emissions cap, which in effect is a production cap.” We are standing here today talking about the emissions cap, but what we are really talking about is not j…
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Mr. Speaker, the member is talking a lot about the new Prime Minister. He seems to want to forget the record of the last 10 years. In fact, the member did not even want to run under the previous prime minister. That is how much he wanted to forget the record of the last 10 years. He was a part of a government that did everything it possibly could to stop the progress and prosperity of the nation. …
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister told Canadians that he was the man with the plan, yet six months later, his budget is nowhere to be seen, and experts now project that his deficit will be double what Trudeau already created. The Prime Minister is proving one thing: Liberals, no matter how they brand themselves, cannot be trusted to handle our finances. Canadians expect and deserve a government that…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister claims to be different. Instead, six months in, Canadians are now learning that the Prime Minister is no different than the last guy. As Liberals increase spending on their well-connected consulting friends by 37%, everyday Canadians pay more and more for gas and for food. Butter is up 64%, apples are up 60%, and rice is up 74%. Here is a lesson for my Liberal frien…
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Mr. Speaker, after telling Canadians to live in shipping containers, will the housing minister go home to his $2-million penthouse in Vancouver, his 11 acres in Tofino or his $5.6-million property in Squamish? The hypocritical minister is telling young Canadians stuck in their parents' basement that housing prices do not need to come down. Does he not see how arrogant and condescending that sounds…
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Mr. Chair, it is $69.9 billion. What is the per capita breakdown for Canada's debt interest currently?
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Mr. Chair, it is $0.7 billion over last year. What will the public debt charges be in fiscal year 2029-30 as outlined in the PBO report? What is that amount, please?
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Mr. Chair, do you think a seven-year ban is acceptable for a company that defrauded Canadians of $64 million, or do you think that the time should be longer?
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Mr. Chair, it is $1,265.46 per person. What is the per capita breakdown for Canada's debt currently?
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Mr. Chair, what is the current expenditure of interest on debt, please?
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Mr. Chair, what is the current deficit in Canada? The debt is approximately $1.4 billion. What is the current deficit, please?
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Mr. Chair, it is $49.1 billion. What is the dollar amount increase in debt servicing over the last year?
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Mr. Chair, how much will the debt grow in the two hours that we have committee this evening?
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Mr. Chair, is the minister aware that his predecessor promised Canadians to recoup that money?
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Mr. Chair, last year's deficit was $61.9 billion. What was the amount requested in the main estimates just two weeks ago?
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Mr. Chair, I welcome the minister. What is the current debt?
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Mr. Chair, will the minister make the promise today to recoup that money for Canadians?
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Mr. Chair, yes, that is right. I will be splitting my time three ways. What is the total amount of authorities that require approval by Parliament in the main estimates?
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Mr. Chair, has the minister reviewed the report on GC Strategies?
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has lost the confidence of his cabinet, of his caucus and of Canadians. He blew through the $61.9-billion deficit, over the $40-billion guardrails he had set. The former finance minister tried to warn him, and he fired her for trying to warn him. He offered her another position, and she refused. Why is it that the Prime Minister only has confidence in women until th…
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The Prime Minister has lost the confidence of his caucus, of his cabinet and of Canadians. The Deputy Prime Minister resigned because the Prime Minister said that he had lost confidence in her. She wrote, “a Minister must speak on behalf of the Prime Minister and with his full confidence. In making your decision, you made clear that I no longer credibly enjoy that confidence”. Just last week, the …
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Mr. Chair, I wonder whether the President of the Treasury Board could confirm that the supplementary estimates bill is in its usual form?
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Madam Speaker, the facts do not lie. The leader of the NDP, with the Prime Minister, voted for the carbon tax 24 times, and New Democrats will do it again next week. The leader of the NDP, along with the Prime Minister, will quadruple the carbon tax in the spring. He is the one who created the coalition agreement with the government that has doubled mortgages, doubled housing prices and sent two m…
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Madam Speaker, just over three months ago, the leader of the NDP ripped up the agreement he had with the government. He said the Prime Minister was “too weak, too selfish and too beholden to corporate interests to fight for [Canadians]”. This coming week, on Monday, the leader of the NDP has an opportunity to decide if he will prop up the government again or not. Is he going to prop up the Prime M…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of broken fiscal promises, the Liberal-NDP Prime Minister has zero credibility. He promised that the budget would balance itself. His finance minister promised that the 2023 deficit would not exceed $40 billion. Now the Parliamentary Budget Officer has told us that the Liberal government has shattered through its $40 billion-deficit promise by $7 billion. I have one q…
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Madam Speaker, for weeks and weeks, the former minister of employment sat here and defended himself. In fact, the Prime Minister defended him as well until he had to release him in absolute shame over identity fraud essentially. Even leading up to that identity fraud, it was just a series of moral lapses. Where there is smoke there is fire. I have no doubt that there are so many more fires burning…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the Liberal-NDP government, Canadians are worse off. The U.S. GDP is up 2.8%, while the Canadian GDP is only up 1%. The Canadian GDP per capita is down 0.4%. This is the sixth consecutive quarter in which the Canadian GDP has been down. The Prime Minister does not have a plan, so will he step aside for a prime minister who does?
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years, Canada faces yet another threat to its economy. The U.S. has threatened a 25% tariff on all goods exported from Canada. The greedy government has increased taxes with the carbon tax, the housing tax and capital gains tax. This is not just bad vibes. Will the Prime Minister admit that it is not bad vibes, but bad policies, that force Canadians to suffer?
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Madam Speaker, I like the colleague and appreciate him, but that is so rich coming from someone whose leader is just holding on to the horrible current government in an effort to get his pension. It is really hard for me to hear that question. I genuinely do not believe that the New Democratic Party understands economics. The Conservatives understand that the administration of this two-month tax t…
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Madam Speaker, as a member of the government operations committee, the government will go to any lengths to hide anything. We have found that time and again, whether it is its work with McKinsey or ArriveCAN. We are going to have to look into Accenture now and see what happened. There is indigenous procurement. The government knows no limits when it comes to covering up.
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Madam Speaker, it is obvious that the government wants to spend money. The problem is what it spends that money on. We know that the Conservative leader has four priorities, namely to axe the tax, build the homes, fix the budget and stop the crime. People can expect good changes from a Conservative government with the member for Carleton as the prime minister of Canada.
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Madam Speaker, first, no one likes fruitcake and no one likes the scandal and corruption of the Liberal government. We all know that the government should just release the names, and the member for Carleton knows that. The member for Carleton knows that if he receives a clearance, it will be the clearance that the Prime Minister wants to give him. He would like the same briefing that The Washingto…
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Madam Speaker, I was very proud to serve as the Alberta campaign chair for the member for Carleton. I can tell the member that we swept Alberta, so I am not concerned at all about the support and tipping the scale. It sounds absolutely ridiculous. It is unfortunate that she would say such things about that. Again, it speaks to the desperation of the Liberal government.
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Madam Speaker, it is always a pleasure to rise in the House and speak on behalf of the good people of Calgary Midnapore. I was very fortunate to have my annual general meeting this weekend. It was just so lovely to reconnect with so many supporters, so many constituents. They are also supporters of the leader of the official opposition. I am very lucky to have the mother of the leader of the offic…
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Madam Speaker, in her last response, the member mentioned children. Like I am, the member is a mother; she has two beautiful young children. We were talking earlier this week, when the announcement was made, about the different expenses she has as a mother. Perhaps the member could make some comments on the new announcement, relative to being a mother and as to the little impact that the announcem…
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